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I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

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A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

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I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

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I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

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So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

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If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Businessman

Born: June 6th, 1954

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